Wei Yong turned around and got into the car, the heavy rain wet his clothes, the coolness in his heart was far more than his body, I wiped the rain on my face and sat in the car, Wei Yong's careless knock on the cocked legs.

"I have entered the underground palace of the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, since you want to dig from below, it means that you have also found that there is a secret room in the underground palace, and there is a diagram of the holy monk traveling west on the floor of the back room, presumably you also saw the blank groove."

"I speculate that what is put in the groove should be the heirloom jade seal, but this thing has been lost, look at this mechanism should be ten catties pendant, it must be just the right weight, although there is technology now, but no one knows how heavy the heirloom jade seal is."

"This is one of them, the mechanism is indeed a ten-pound pendant, but the groove is not a regular boxy shape, and there is an obvious defect in the lower right corner." Wei Yong said in a deep voice. "It's because of this defect, you're just guessing, but I'm pretty sure that what was put on it should indeed have been passed down to the jade seal."

"Why can you be sure of Secretary Wei?" I asked, confused.

"How many people in this world have seen the real heirloom jade seal?" Wei Yong asked meaningfully. "All the news about the jade seal of the country is known from the literature, only heard, no one sees it."

"In that case, Secretary Wei hasn't seen it before, right?"

"Once the sea was difficult to ......"

Wei Yong smiled faintly, looked out the window and looked a little melancholy, but it quickly disappeared on his face, and asked seriously.

"How much do you know about the heirloom jade seal?"

"In the nineteenth year of the reign of King Qin, Qin Po Zhao, and the Bi of the Clan, the unification of the world, Ying Zheng called the first emperor, and ordered Li Si to be ordered by the heavens, both Shou Yongchang eight characters, Xianyang Jade King Sun Shou will be the Bi of the and the family of the fine grinding, carved for the seal." I replied fluently. "The precious jade, superb calligraphy art and amazing carving technology make this jade seal a treasure of the world, and this square seal is the later heirloom jade seal."

"Then do you know how many jade seals were carved at that time?"

"Seven directions!" I answer unequivocally. "When Qin Shi Huang formulated the jade seal system, according to his own wishes and the needs of governing the country, he established the seven-seal system, one large and six small, one refers to the national seal, and the six small refers to the three seals of the emperor and the three seals of the Son of Heaven.

When I said this, I suddenly realized, raised my head and asked tentatively.

"Although these seven square jade seals are one big and six small, the size here does not refer to the shape, but the status, is it ...... Secretary Wei means that although the jade seal of the country has been lost, there are still small seals of the six parties that have been passed down to the world? ”

Wei Yong casually lit a cigarette and took a puff and said lightly.

"Actually...... It's not seven directions, there are eight directions! ”

"Happo?!"

"How much do you know about the inheritance of the jade seal?" Wei Yong didn't answer my doubts.

"At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, Liu Bang led his troops to break through the Qin army into the Wuguan, marched to the hegemony, and approached Xianyang, the prince of Qin was powerless to resist, so he had to go out of the city and surrender, he knelt beside the road on the outskirts of Xianyang, and respectfully presented the seven seals of the Qin Dynasty and some talismans to Liu Bang, after Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, this jade seal became the national seal of the Han Dynasty, which was treasured in the Changle Palace and became a major treasure of the country."

"And then?" Wei Yong asked calmly.

"At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang poisoned the fourteen-year-old Emperor Ping of Han with pepper wine, and set up a two-year-old infant as the crown prince, and he had to pass on the jade seal of the country to control the world."

Wei Yong flicked the cigarette ash and turned his head to say meaningfully.

"These are all recorded in the literature, so let me tell you something that is not in the literature."

I raised my head and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"I want to hear about it."

"At that time, Wang Mang was anxious to become the real emperor, and he wanted to get the national seal, but this jade seal was in the hands of the Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun, Wang Zhengjun was Wang Mang's aunt, Wang Mang was inconvenient to come forward in person to force her to hand over the jade seal, so he sent his cousin Wang Shun to persuade the queen mother, the queen mother was furious after knowing her intentions, and threw the heirloom seal to the ground, as a result, the jade seal was thrown off a corner, Wang Shun hurriedly picked up the jade seal, ran back to Wang Mang, Wang Mang was overjoyed, and found a craftsman to make up for it with gold overnight, and since then, this jade seal has become a gold inlaid jade seal."

I thought of the mutilation in the lower right corner of the groove, it turned out to be this reason, but there is no mention of it in this historical document, no wonder Wei Yong is so sure that it is the seal of the country that is put into the groove, but he never understands what he doesn't even know, how did Wei Yong know.

Wei Yong took a puff of cigarette and continued calmly.

"After Wang Mang's new dynasty was overthrown, the seal of the country changed hands several times, and finally fell into the hands of Emperor Liu Xiu of the Han Guangwu, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuch dictatorship, He Jin, Yuan Shao wanted to punish all the permanent servants, as a result, He Jin was killed, He Jin's trilogy Wu Kuang, Zhang Zhang and Yuan Shu and others led troops into the palace to hunt and kill the eunuchs, and Zhang Rang and Duan Jue took the young emperor hostage and fled in a hurry, and even the seal of the country and the six seals were too late to take away, and after returning to the palace, they found that the seal of the country had disappeared."

"This is the first time that the seal of the country has been passed on, however, later, Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha, participated in the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and was the first to lead the troops into Luoyang, garrisoning the south of the city, and his subordinates salvaged the body of a palace maid in the well of Zhen Guanjing in the south of the city, and found the seal of the country from the bag under her neck, and Sun Jian secretly left the jade seal." I took Wei Yong's words and continued. But this matter was known by the ambitious Yuan Shu, so he asked Sun Jian for the jade seal, Sun Jian resolutely refused to give, Yuan Shu detained Sun Jian's wife, Sun Jian had no choice but to hand over the jade seal, and later Yuan Shu was defeated and died, and the seal returned to the hands of Emperor Han Xian."

"Later, ......" Wei Yong said this with a strange expression, as if he fell into deep contemplation, and did not speak for a long time, until the cigarette butt burned his hand, and he flicked the cigarette ash on his clothes in a panic, in my impression of him, Wei Yong should not be in such a trance to say, what made him so distracted.

"Later, Cao Pi called the emperor, the seal of the country was in the hands of Cao Wei, after the unification of the Three Kingdoms, the seal of the country was returned to the Jin, the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the seal of the country changed hands frequently, and then the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi, the Northern Zhou of the Sui Dynasty, and the seal of the country was transferred to the hands of Emperor Wen of Sui."

When talking about this period of history, Wei Yong's tone was obviously different from before, there was an indescribable heroism and majesty, as if he was not telling history, but recalling the past.

"Until the Tang Dynasty, the seal of the country had nearly three hundred years of peace, since Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, the seal of the country suffered bad luck again, first from the Later Liang to the Later Tang, not long after, the Emperor Li Congke was defeated by the Khitan, he was cornered, holding the jade seal to climb the building**, witnessed the change of many dynasties of the seal finally ended its millennium journey."

After Wei Yong finished speaking, I looked at him thoughtfully.

"Secretary Wei, many people know the beginning and end of the national seal, but I remember you just said that the national seal is eight directions instead of seven parties, but in the literature, until the Later Tang Dynasty abolished Emperor Li Congke held the jade seal and ascended the building**, there was no mention of the eighth jade seal, where did the eighth jade seal come from?"

"The seal of the country is to prove the identity of the emperor, and if there is no seal of the country, it is not good to be the emperor, which is why the emperors of the past dynasties are eager to pass on the seal, Zhu Yuanzhang can dominate the world without the seal, but at most it is just a pity, after all, he is a strong man, and the so-called situation creates heroes." Wei Yong said calmly. "No one investigates his origin, status and past, but in a feudal society where men are superior to women, if a woman wants to be the emperor, I am afraid that if she does not pass on the national seal, she will ......"

"Wu Zetian!" I turned my head and said in surprise. "You mean...... Wu Zetian also made a national seal in order to ascend the throne? ! ”

"What Wu Zetian wants is justified, how can she use a fake national seal to prove her identity, even if she blocks the mouths of the princes and ministers, she may not be able to block the mouths of the world."

"Since...... Since the heirloom seal used by Wu Zetian is real? The heirloom seal of the Tang Dynasty ......"

I was dumbfounded when I said this, and slowly raised my finger and said in a trembling voice.

"The jade seal of the country has never been lost! Wu Zetian replaced the real heirloom seal of the Tang Dynasty with a fake heirloom seal, so it has been passed down later...... It's all a fake heirloom jade seal! ”

"Hehe, it seems that you already know why there is a Bafang Jade Seal!" Wei Yong smiled faintly and said unhurriedly. "You only need to find the true heirloom jade seal of Wu Zetian who stole the beams and changed the pillars, and you can open the secret room of the underground palace."

I was just happy for a moment, but soon the expression on my face darkened again.

"Wu Zetian stealing beams and changing pillars is an extremely obscure thing, it is impossible to record this in any literature, a person from a thousand years ago, no one knows the whereabouts of the national seal, although there is a new clue, but what is the difference between it and the lost result."

"Of course there is a difference, dust to dust to dust, at least you know where Wu Zetian is now, hehe."

I reminisced about Wei Yong's suddenly meaningful words and slowly opened my mouth.

"You mean...... The jade seal of the country is in Wu Zetian's mausoleum?! ”

"I don't know if it's there, but if you go in and look for it, you'll find out!" The smile on Wei Yong's face was relaxed.

I was stunned and looked at Wei Yong dumbfounded.

"You...... You want me to steal the Qianling! ”